ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,110, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Video decoding apparatus and video decoding method" was invented by Takeshi Chujoh (Sakai City, Japan), Tomoko Aono (Sakai City, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai City, Japan), Eiichi Sasaki (Sakai City, Japan) and Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding apparatus and an image coding apparatus that reduce complexity of high image quality processing are implemented. The image decoding apparatus includes an inter prediction parameter decoding processing unit that includes processing of, regarding two motion vectors, modifyi...